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A33307	England's remembrancer a true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances : one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists by the fall of the house in Black-Fryers London upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family by Sam. Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing C4512; ESTC R24835	49,793	136

was this STraverat innumeris Hispanus classibus aequor Regnis juncturus Sceptra Britanna suis. Tanti hujus rogitas quae motus causa superbos Impulit Ambitio vexat avaritia Quam bene te Ambitio mersit vanissima ventus Et tumidae tumidos Vos superastis aquae Quam bene Raptores Orbis totius Iberos Mersit inexhausti justa vorago Maris At tu cui venti cui totum militat Aequor Regina O mundi totius una decus Sic regnare Deo perge Ambitione remota Prodiga sic opibus perge jùvare pios Vt te Angli longum longum Anglis ipsa fruaris Quam dilecta bonis tam metuenda malis SPaines King with Navies great the Seas bestrew'd T' augment with English Crown his Spanish sway Ask ye what caus'd this proud attempt 't was lewd Ambition drove and Avarice led the way It 's well Ambitions windy puff lies drown'd By winds and swelling hearts by swelling waves It 's well those Spaniards who the Worlds vast round Devour'd devouring Sea most justly craves But thou O Queen for whom Winds Seas do war O thou the Glory of this Worlds wide Mass So reign to God still from Ambition far So still with bounteous aids the Good imbrace That Thou maist England long long England Thee enjoy Thou terror of all Bad Thou Good Mens joy The other is that made by Mr Samuel Ward of Ipswich OCtogesimus Octavus Mirabilis annus Clade Papistarum Faustus ubique piis IN Eighty eight Spain arm'd with potent might Against our peaceful Land came on to fight The Winds and Waves and Fire in one conspire To help the English frustrate Spains desire THE Gunpowder-Treason Being A REMEMBRANCER TO ENGLAND Of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot hatched by the Bloody PAPISTS 1605. Tending to revive the Memory of the fifth of November to every Family in this Nation That all sorts may be stirred up to real thankfulness and transmit the same to their Posterities that their Children may know the reason why the fifth of November is celebrated that God may have glory and PAPISTS perpetual Infamy The Lord is known by the judgment that he executeth and the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah Psal. 9. 16. By SAMVEL CLARK formerly Pastor of Bennet Finck London LONDON Printed for J. Hancock at the three Bibles in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1676. TO THE READER Christian Reader LEt the remembrance of so signal a mercy and deliverance vouchsafed by God both to Church and State should be buried in Oblivion I have at the request of the Book seller presented thee here with a true and faithful Narrative of that grand work of darkness forged in Hell and by Satan suggested to some Popish Instruments who envying the peace and prosperity of our Church and progress of the Gospel had designed at one blow to overthrow both and that nothing might be wanting to complete that horried wickedness their purpose was to have charged it upon the Puritans thereby hoping to free themselves and their Religion from the imputation of so hainous a Crime Now that the memorial of a mercy of such publick and general concernment should not be forgotten we have the word of the eternal God to be our guide therein When the Lord had by his Angel destroyed the first-born of Egypt and spared Israel he instituted the feast of the Passover to continue the memorial thereof through their Generations Ex. 12. 11 12 14. and ver 26 27. saith Moses to them when your Children shall say unto you What mean you by this service ye shall say It is the Sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over the Houses of the Children of Israel when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our Houses And how careful good Mordecai was to continue the remembrance of that great deliverance of the people of God from destruction plotted and contrived by that wicked Haman appears Esth. 9. 20 c. where they did not only celebrate those present dayes of their deliverance with feasting and gladness but he together with the rest of the Jewes or dained and took upon them and their seed and upon all such as joined themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep those daies in their appointed time every year and that those daies should be remembred and kept through their Generations every Family every Province and every City and that those daies of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their seed c. And truly the remembrance of this great mercy hath the more need to be revived at this time when some noted persons amongst us begin to decry it and wholly to lay aside the observation of that day though enjoined by Act of Parliament and made conscience of by most of the godly people of the Nation I have also been induced the rather to make this brief Collection of the Story because though it be published by others yet it is in larger Volumes which are not every ones money whereas for a small matter every family may get and keep this by them for the benefit and satisfaction both of themselves and Children that so the Lord may not lose of his glory nor they for want of information fail of their duty I shall conclude with that of the Psalmist Psal. 107. 8. O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the Children of men which is the hearty desire of Thine for thy spiritual good SAM CLARK THE DELIVERANCE OF OUR CHURCH and STATE FROM THE Hellish Powder-Plot 1605. THE Plot was to undermine the Parliament-House and with Powder to blow up the King Prince Clergy Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of all the flower of Glory Piety Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons Brothers Allies Friends Foes Papists and Protestants all at one blast Their intent when that irreligious atchievement had been performed was to surprize the remainder of the Kings Issue to alter Religion and Government and to bring in a Foreign Power Sir Edmond Baynam an attainted person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent unto the Pope as he was a temporal Prince to acquaint him with the Gun-Powder-Plot and now to the Plot in self The Sessions of Parliament being dissolved July the 7th Anno Christi 1604. and Prorogued to the seventh of February following Catesby being at Lambeth sent for Thomas Winter who before had been imployed into Spain and acquainted him with the design of blowing up the Parliament-House who readily apprehending it said This indeed strikes at the root only these helps were wanting a House for residence and a skilful man to carry on the Mine But the first Catesby assured him was easie to be got and for the man he commended Guy Fawkes a sufficient Souldier and a forward Catholick Thus Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Winter

so noble and grave a Council and the restless and confused questions that every man all that day did vex him with yet was his countenance so far from being dejected that he often smiled in a scornful manner answering quickly to every mans questions scoffing at those that were impertinent and jesting at such as he thought had no authority to examine him Before the Council he refused to answer to such questions as he thought might discover the Plot took all the blame upon himself whereunto he said he was moved only for Religion and Conscience sake denying the King to be his lawful Sovereign because he was an Heretick As desperate were Catesby Percy and the rest who seeing the treason discover'd posted all into Warwickshire About the same hour of the night wherein Fawkes was apprehended one Grant a Gentleman having associated to himself others of his opinion all desperate Papists broke open the Stables of Mr Bennock a Rider of great Horses at Warwick Castle and carried away eight of them which belonged to divers Noblemen and Gentlemen of that Country who had put them into Mr Bennock's hand to fit them for their service and so both they which had fled from London and Grant and his Company met on that Tuesday night at Dun-Church at Sir Everard Digbies Lodgings who had made a match for a great Hunting upon Dunsmore-heath that under pretence thereof they might seize upon the Lady Elizabeth then at Comb-Abbey with the Lord Harrington but when by those which posted from London they were informed that they were discovered and pursued being struck with a great fear not knowing whither to fly they desperately began an open Rebellion pretending that they did it for the cause of Religion all the Catholicks throats being intended to be cut But the violent taking away of those Horses in the night seemed even in the eyes of the common-people to be so great a riot though they knew nothing more that it begat in their hearts a suspicion of some following Rebellion so that all sorts both great and small began to arm themselves upon this unexpected accident And old Sir Fulk Grevil of Beauchamps-Court being Deputy-Lieutenant of Warwickshire though aged and infirm yet out of his zeal for the peace and welfare of his Country presently took order to get into his hands the Ammunition and Arms of all such Gentlemen as were absent from their Houses or Popishly affected and sent such directions to the Towns about him that thereupon when these Rebels came to Ilcester a poor Smith stroke Winter who had likewise been taken by the Townsmen but that he was rescued by his Companions Yet sixteen of their followers were taken and sent to the Sheriff at Warwick and from thence to London In the mean time the rest wandred through Warwickshire being pursued by Sir Richard Verney the then High-Sheriff and from thence they went through Worcestershire into the Borders of Staffordshire their Servants and followers being about eighty men who also stole away many of them from them Thus ranging about and finding no resistance they rifled the Lord Windsors House of all the Armour Shot Powder and all other Warlike provisions but the weather being rainy and the waters somewhat high the Powder in Carriage took wet and so became unserviceable For their last refuge they betook themselves to Holbach House in Staffordshire belonging to Steven Littleton whither they were pursued by the High-Sheriff of Worcestershire who not knowing of the treason and thinking it to be only some fray or riot sent his Trumpeter unto them commanding them to render themselves to him his Majesties Minister But their Consciences witnessing what the Sheriff knew not answered that he had need of greater assistance than of those few that were with him before he could be able to command or controul them and so they prepared for resistance and having laid two pounds of the said Powder into a Platter to dry in the Chimney one coming to mend the fire threw in a Billet whereby a spark flew into the Powder whose sudden blast was so violent that though so small a quantity it blew up the roof of the House scorching the Bodies and Faces of Catesby Rookwood and Grant and some others whose Consciences now told them that God had punished them justly with Powder who with Powder would have destroyed so many Being dispirited with this accident yet like desperate men they resolved to die together set open the Gates and suffered the Sheriffs men to rush in upon them and presently both the Wrights were shot down dead Rookwood and Thomas Winter were very sorely wounded Catesby and Percy desperately fighting back to back were both shot through and slain with one Musket Bullet the rest being taken were carried Prisoners to London being all the way gazed at reviled and detested by the common people for their horrid and horrible treason and so at last they received the just guerdon of their wickedness Thus you have seen this work of darkness by the watchfulness of Gods providence detected and defeated and the contrivers of mischief faln into the Pit that they digged for others Now let us see also how cunningly they contrived the transferring the Odium of it upon the Puritans There was one Mr Pickering of Tichmarsh-Grove in Northamptonshire that was in great esteem with King James This Mr Pickering had a Horse of special note for swiftness on which he used to hunt with the King A little before the blow was given Mr Keies one of the Conspirators and Brother in Law to Mr Pickering borrowed this Horse of him and conveyed him to London upon a bloody design which was thus contrived Fawks upon the day of the fatal blow was appointed to retire himself into St. Georges Fields where this Horse was to attend him to further his escape as they made him believe so soon as the Parliament House should be blown up It was likewise contrived that Mr Pickering who was noted for a Puritan should that Morning be murthered in his Bed and secretly conveyed away as also that Fawks so soon as he came into Georges Fields to escape should be there murthered and so mangled that he could not be known whereupon it was to be bruited abroad that the Puritans had blown up the Parliament-House and the better to make the World believe it there was Mr Pickering with his choice Horse ready to make an escape but that stirred up some who seeing the hainousness of the fact and him ready to escape in detestation of so horrible a deed fell upon him and hewed him in pieces and to make it more clear there was his Horse known to be of special speed and swiftness ready to carry him away and upon this rumor a Massacre should have gone through the whole land upon the Puritans When the contrivance of this Plot was thus discovered by some of the Conspirators and Faux who was now a Prisoner in the Tower made acquainted with it whereas before

he was made to believe by his Companions that he should be bountifully rewarded for that his good service to the Catholick Cause now perceiving that on the contrary his Death had been contrived by them he thereupon freely confessed all that he knew concerning that horrid Conspiracy which before all the tortures of the rack could not force him unto The truth of all this was attested by Mr William Perkins an eminent Christian and Citizen of London to Dr Gouge which Mr Perkins had it from the mouth of Mr Clement Cotton that made our English Concordance who also had it from the Relation of Mr Pickering himself The Names of those that were first in this Treason and laboured in the Mine were Robert Catesby Robert Winter Esquires Thomas Percy Thomas Winter John Wright Christopher Wright Guy Fawkes Gentlemen and Bates Catesbies man Persons made acquainted with it and Promoters of it were Sir Everard Digby Knight Ambrose Rookwood Francis Tresham Esquires John Grant Gentleman Robert Keyes This prodigious contrivance did not only stupifie the whole Kingdom with consternation and amazement but Foreign Princes at least seemed to wonder at it also and though for the propagation of the Catholick cause they might have Conscience enough to wish that it had taken effect yet they had policy enough to congratulate the discoverers and some of them to take off the asperity of the suspect sweetned their expressions with many rich gifts to our King and Queen The Parliament by reason of the hurry occasioned hereby met not till the ninth of November at which time Henry Lord Mordant and Edward Lord Sturton not coming to the Parliament according to their Writ of Summons were suspected as having knowledge of the Conspiracy and so was the Earl of Northumberland from some presumptions and all three were Committed to the Tower The two Barons after a while were redeemed by fine in Starchamber but the Earl continued a Prisoner there for many years after How the Parliament was affected for this great deliverance of the whole Kingdom from ruine and destruction will appear by the Act which they made to have the fifth of November for ever solemnized with Publick Thanksgiving wherein they imputed the discovery of the Treason to the inspiring the King with a divine spirit to interpret some dark Phrases of the Letter above and beyond all ordinary construction they attainted also the blood of those Traytors that were executed as also of those that were slain at Holbach-House or that died in Prison and the King being not unmindful of the Lord Monteagle the first discoverer of this Treason gave him and his Heirs for ever two hundred pounds a year in Fee-Farm Rents and 500l l a year besides during his life as a reward for his good service But now to the Act it self An Act for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth of November FOrasmuch as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States and that no Nation of the Earth hath been blessed with greater benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most Sovereign Lord King James the most Great Learned and Religious King that ever reigned therein enriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progeny proceeding out of his Royal Loyns promising the continuance of this happiness and profession to all Posterity the which many malignant and Devillish Papists Jesuits and Seminary Priests much envying and fearing conspired most horribly when the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been Assembled in the Vpper House of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord 1605. suddenly to have blown up the said House with Gunpowder an invention so inhumane barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspirators confess purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House that where sundry necessary and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruine of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most Excellent Majesty with a divine spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to his Majesty above and beyond all ordinary construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the Execution thereof Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and all his Majesties faithful and loving Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite blessing to have proceeded meerly from Gods great mercy and to his most holy name do ascribe all Honour Glory and Praise And to the end this unfeigned thankfulness may never be forgotten but be had in a perpetual remembrance that all Ages to come may yield praises to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memory this joyful day of deliverance Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usual place for Common-Prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon the fifth day of November say Morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy deliverance and that all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Morning Prayer Preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayer Preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and every person may be put in mind of this duty and be the better prepared to the said holy service Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth of November for the due observation of the said day And that after Morning Prayer or Preaching on the said fifth day of November they read distinctly and plainly this present Act. Upon the Powder-Plot OH Murtherous Plot Posterity shall say 'S Vnholyness o'reshoots Caligula The Pope by this and such designs 't is plain Out-Babels Nimrod and out-Butchers Cain Monteagle's Letter was in dubious sence And seem'd a piece of